but its all in the good name of getting fit and healthy and looking after ones self etc etc. tonight will be the eighth track session of my season, my how time flies. soon it will be time to start thinking about times for 800 meter races and posibly the odd 400 as well. the training has been going quite well recently but the distinct lak of track meetings makes it very hard to run times on the track. the recent trend towards mass participation road running has meant that we have bred an entire generation of people who are just joggers rather than competitive athletes. the league structure does absolutely nothing as you can turn up at a meeting and there is no guarantee that you will be in a race. very little gets advertised in athletics weekly that is suitable for my self in terms of venue or time which is where the problem lies with regards to my lack of improvement.
there are also more technical aspects of my running that i feel i could improve a lot more such as using my arms more, learning how to run a bend (they say the way to do it is to run it like it is three straights) and being more onmy toes when i run ie not being so flat footed. hayfever has been quite bad these past couple of days, my eyes have been a bit sore and my nose qite runny, but the runny nose bit i suppose is no ddiffererent to usual.
on a different note i was disappointed not to be able to seeany coverage of the loughborough meeting this year and i know nothing about how the brits got on. i think the bbc's attitude towards athletics demonstrates a complete apathy towards any thing that is not a major international meeting or a world (or aaa's) championships in any sport apart from football and even then there are some of the football fraternity who are saying that the number of games that are on tv are damaging the game becaues the quality or the status of the match is not good enough. maybe one day i will appear on tv, who knows but i feel that my real strength lies in short distance road races, where there is no real profile apart from in local newspapers. that may change once i get truly used to running on the track but how often does a leopard change its spots?
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